2019: I will floor Suswan, Gemade with landslide margin -Mrs. Mimi Adzepe-orubibi

Benue State North East Senatorial District (Zone A) candidate on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mrs. Mimi Adzape-Orubibi has averred that she would floor all ‘big’ contestants in the race with her by landslide margin in the 2019 general election.

It was gathered that the seat is presently occupied by Senator Barnabas Gemade who has also secured the Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s ticket for a third tenure.

However Orubibi, a first timer in the political space and immediate past Chairman of Benue State Internal Revenue Service (BIRS), boasted yesterday in Makurdi, that she would unseat Gemade and the other big names of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer, ex-governor Gabriel Suswam as well as APGA’s candidate, Senator Joseph Akaagerger.

“How did Suswam won the first election? Before becoming a governor he went to the House of Representatives; so who was Suswam before then? There was a starting point so my winning election should not be in doubt because I will win with a landslide margin,” she said.

The senatorial hopeful added that she was not afraid of the calibre of men contesting for the same seat with her, stressing that her victory at the party’s primary election which consisted of seven local government areas clearly demonstrated that the people’s ideology about a woman in a culture syndrome society was fast fading.

Orubibi had scored a total of 1,391 votes during the APC primaries to beat Mathias Byuan with 279 votes, Vandefan James, 28 votes, B.B Nungwa, 26 votes and Terwase Tsumbu who polled 22 votes.